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===Constitution===
===Constitution===
The Imperial treasury that is made available to the Senate is what remains from taxation and auctions in the [[Imperial Bourse]] after appropriate deductions to meet the running costs of the Empire are removed. The [[Master of the Imperial Mint]] receives a breakdown of income and expenditure for the Empire which includes outgoings for [[Imperial armies]], [[fortifications]], [[New_Imperial_titles#Stipend|stipends]], running costs for any [[Mercantile_investment#Great_Works|great works]] that require them and the costs to administer the territories of the Empire. The Senate has the ability to curtail most of these outgoings by abrogating past motions, demobilizing armies and dismantling existing fortifications and great works but they '''cannot''' change the Empire's territorial administration costs, these are fixed.
The Imperial treasury that is made available to the Senate is what remains from taxation and auctions in the [[Imperial Bourse]] after appropriate deductions to meet the running costs of the Empire are removed. The [[Master of the Imperial Mint]] receives a breakdown of income and expenditure for the Empire which includes outgoings for [[Imperial armies]], [[fortifications]], [[New_Imperial_titles#Stipend|stipends]], running costs for any [[great work]] that require them and the costs to administer the territories of the Empire. The Senate has the ability to curtail most of these outgoings by abrogating past motions, demobilizing armies and dismantling existing fortifications and great works but they '''cannot''' change the Empire's territorial administration costs, these are fixed.


===Notes===
The level of detail provided in information available to the Master of the Mint and the Senate is set by the limits for [[Abstraction]] in the game.
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A detailed breakdown of '''all''' the administrative costs involved in administering the Empire would run to several hundred pages and more. All these costs are fixed, in effect they are "below our abstraction layer", so changing the administrative costs of the Empire is completely outside the remit of the game. It is not part of the game design for PC senators to spend hours examining the number of chickens bought to feed the third regiment of the Granite pillar over a six week period to see if savings could be made by using more chicken legs and less chicken breasts. As a result we don't intend to provide this utterly useless information as it would take hours to manufacture it, hours to read it and the answer to every single question of "''Can we change this''" would be "''no''"</box>
A detailed breakdown of '''all''' the administrative costs involved in administering the Empire would run to several hundred pages and more. All these costs are fixed, in effect they are "below our abstraction layer", so changing the administrative costs of the Empire is completely outside the remit of the game. It is not part of the game design for PC senators to spend hours examining the number of chickens bought to feed the third regiment of the Granite pillar over a six week period to see if savings could be made by using more chicken legs and less chicken breasts. As a result we don't intend to provide this superfluous information as it would take hours to manufacture it, hours to read it and the answer to every single question of "''Can we change this?''" would be "''No''".


[[Category: Senate Motion]]
It's perfectly within the parameters of the game for the Senate to bypass the power of the Master of the Mint if they are prepared to pay to do so, but not to try to change the nature of the game from one of politics, economics and war to a game of accountancy and efficiency savings.</box>
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[[Category:Senate Motion]]
[[Category: 377YE Autumn]]
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Latest revision as of 08:19, 23 January 2022

Perform an Imperial economic audit in detail to be provided to the Senate.

Proposed by Zenith, seconded by Hahnmark.

Overview

  • Provide an Imperial economic audit in detail.
  • Passed 25 votes to 3.

Date

  • Passed Autumn 377YE.

Cost

  • 10 Thrones.

Campaign Outcome

  • Civil servants are preparing a detailed audit to be presented in person to the Imperial Senate.

Constitution

The Imperial treasury that is made available to the Senate is what remains from taxation and auctions in the Imperial Bourse after appropriate deductions to meet the running costs of the Empire are removed. The Master of the Imperial Mint receives a breakdown of income and expenditure for the Empire which includes outgoings for Imperial armies, fortifications, stipends, running costs for any great work that require them and the costs to administer the territories of the Empire. The Senate has the ability to curtail most of these outgoings by abrogating past motions, demobilizing armies and dismantling existing fortifications and great works but they cannot change the Empire's territorial administration costs, these are fixed.

Notes

The level of detail provided in information available to the Master of the Mint and the Senate is set by the limits for Abstraction in the game.